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_John_Coventry_
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February 29, 2008
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Page scaling

  • February 29, 2008
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Scale page by percent. Currently, in print set up page scaling amounts to reducing or enlarging to fit printer borders. When I have a scaled architectural drawing, I want to reduce it a fixed percentage so the printed drawing is also in scale, such as 50%, or 25%. This is now not possible and very annoying.
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    _Merlene_Tarlac_
    Participant
    August 25, 2008
    I would have thought a standard feature - into the future at least.
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    _cortney_roundy_
    Participant
    August 20, 2008
    I also would like to see page scaling by percentage. I work in architecture and frequently work with 30" x 42" documents and often want to print them half size so I set up a page at 15" x 21" but instead of being able to set it up to print at 50% I have to use scale to fit or a similar scaling option which always scales my documents to 49%. This is very annoying especially when I have to use a ruler to measure something off a printed page. I don't understand why we can't have it print exactly the way we want it to. Isn't that what PDF is all about anyway?
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      Bill12
      Inspiring
      March 1, 2008
      You change it in the printer when you print. You might be able to scale it with PDF Optimizer, but I am not sure.
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      _John_Coventry_Author
      Participant
      March 1, 2008
      How do you change the paper size in the PDF document?
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      Bill12
      Inspiring
      February 29, 2008
      Change the paper size to what you want and then scale the print. It works for me. You may have to do it from the PDF itself. I did that to reduce or enlarge a bunch of PDFs I had from folks who can't follow directions. In this case, I did not change the printer page size, only the size of the information on the page.
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      patriciht8
      Participant
      October 17, 2009

      Thank you so much Bill for that information. I have just gotten acquainted with PDF and did not know much about page scaling at all. Thanks again! Just goes on to show how little I know about PDFs.

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